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Little is His Name, Big Tax Cheat is His Game, Long Time He’ll Be in Prison!
Third time’s the charm for Michael Dexter Little, who was convicted of tax fraud in 1999, 2003 and again in 2022. This time, Little also added conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft to his already extensive record. From 2019 to 2021, Little filed a number of false tax r
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readFeb 2, 2022Your IRS Questions Answered Here…
Question: I haven’t filed my tax returns for several years and the IRS keeps sending me notices that I owe them 39,000. How can that be? What should I do? Answer: When a legally required income tax return isn’t filed on time, the IRS can file an income tax return on your behalf. It’s called […]
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJan 25, 2022Plumbing Companies’ Money Goes Down the Toilet Thanks to Crappy Controller!
Rosalba Meza, the controller for two plumbing companies, was arrested for embezzling more than 3 million dollars. From 2017 through 2019, Meza made unauthorized transfers from company bank accounts into personal bank accounts totaling $3,071,880. In February 2019 Meza told company executives they
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJan 23, 2022IRS Reels In Tax Cheating Fisherman
Alfredo Loya, a commercial fisherman from Virginia, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for failing to pay his federal income taxes for nearly a decade. Loya was employed by a number of companies as an independent contractor from 2006 to 2014. From 2006 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2016 he filed no [
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJan 21, 2022Pharmacy Owner Compounds Crimes by Deceiving the IRS!
The owner of two compounding pharmacies, Matthew Hogan Peters, was sentenced to prison for evading payment of nearly 5.5 million dollars in personal income taxes and for submitting false reimbursement claims to CVS Caremark. Peters devised a scheme to incentivize healthcare providers to write pres
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJan 20, 2022McPhail Fails, Lands in Jail!
The owner of a roofing company, Ronald McPhail, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for failing to report income from 2014 to 2019. During that time McPhail’s business generated more than 7.1 million dollars in revenue and approximately 2.43 million dollars in income. To conceal the inco
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJan 19, 2022“Garmento” Loses the Shirt Off His Back!
Sang Bum Noh, the owner of a wholesale garment company in the fashion district of downtown Los Angeles, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for undervaluing imported garments to avoid paying millions of dollars in import duties, failing to report millions of dollars in income, and faili
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readJan 18, 2022Your IRS Questions Answered Here…
Question: I’m currently separated from my spouse, who owns his own business, and we are in the process of getting a divorce. I have always filed jointly with my husband and now the IRS is sending me notices stating I owe $77,000. I have no idea how they are coming up with this amount as […]
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readDec 30, 2021Accountant Steals Two Million Dollars from Abused Children
Angelia Brown, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was convicted of wire fraud and filing a false tax return after embezzling more than two million dollars from her employer, a nonprofit that works with abused children. From 2012 through June 2020 Brown, a staff accountant for the organization, forged company
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readDec 22, 2021Tax Cheat Hides Millions of Dollars and Applies for Food Stamps
Robert Lund was sentenced to prison on a tax evasion case that goes back to 1997, when he was audited by the IRS and it was determined he owed more than 2.7 million dollars in taxes plus penalties. Lund appealed the tax assessment and lost. In response, he stopped paying taxes altogether and continu
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readDec 18, 2021Lottery Winner’s Luck Runs Out
Mustafa Shalash pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return in connection to lottery winnings in 2015. Shalash won a million dollars in the Ohio state lottery and that year declared $1,069,100 in winnings, along with $1,069,100 in gambling losses. To hide the money he wired $690,000 to
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readDec 14, 2021Liquor Store Owner Could Use a Drink Right About Now
A Florida liquor store owner, Ajay Kumar, was sentenced to prison for tax evasion for failing to report the store’s cash sales. For tax years 2015 to 2018, Kumar only reported credit card sales on his tax returns and underreported the liquor store's gross receipts by approximately $1,718,945. For th
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readDec 6, 2021Tax Preparer’s 6,000 False Returns Go Up in Smoke!
In order to hide evidence from the IRS two fires were intentionally set at Rush Tax Service locations, one in 2017 and one in 2019. The fires destroyed client files, financial records, and computer hardware. Between 2013 and 2017, the owner of Rush Tax Service, Andrivia Wells, prepared more than 6,0
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readDec 2, 2021Nonprofit Founder Hoping 4 Change in Legal Troubles
Barry Isaacs founded the Cincinnati nonprofit Hope 4 Change when he was 24. Eleven years later he has been sentenced to four years in prison for failing to pay payroll taxes and embezzlement. Hope 4 Change provides housing and care for adults with developmental disabilities, and at one time had over
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readDec 2, 2021Your IRS Questions Answered Here…
Question: I owe 78,000 to the IRS for back taxes. I’m constantly getting threatening letters from them. This has become a big problem in my life that I have no idea how to solve. Can you help me? Answer: For what it’s worth, take some comfort in knowing that you are not alone. There are […]
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readNov 24, 2021Investors Duped in Hotel Scam
Christopher Ciccone, a New Jersey businessman who was previously convicted of wire fraud and filing a false tax return, was arrested for defrauding investors of more than one million dollars. Ciccone lured prospective investors with the notion that his company was reserving blocks of rooms at luxu
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readNov 18, 2021This Couple’s Tax Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme Was Very Dirty
A couple from Maryland, James and Maureen Wilson, was indicted for conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, identity theft and filing a false tax return in connection with a life insurance scheme. Starting in 1996 the Wilsons sought to obtain more than 30 life insurance policies worth
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readNov 16, 2021Tax Preparer Sentenced to Multiple Years In Prison for Filing Multiple False Tax Returns
Damian Barrett, a Florida tax preparer, was convicted of filing 745 false tax returns in 19 states. Barrett owned two tax preparation companies. He used one to file legitimate returns and the other to file false returns. From 2015 to 2018 Barrett filed 348 false returns in the state of Oregon al
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readNov 11, 2021Money Grows on Trees for Nursery Bookkeeper
The bookkeeper for a family owned tree nursery in North Carolina pleaded guilty to embezzling more than one million dollars over a six year period. Richard Clark began working for the nursery in 2003, and in 2013 started writing checks to himself from the company. He covered his tracks by altering
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readNov 9, 2021Instructor Fails to Learn the Language of the IRS
Daniel Berglund, a self-employed computer language instructor, was convicted of four counts of tax evasion for failing to file taxes from 1987 to 2017. Berglund took many steps to hide his income from the IRS – including giving his clients a made up tax identification number to prevent payments to h
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readNov 4, 2021Cryptocurrency Company Owners Face 5 Years in Prison!
The founders of a cryptocurrency company, Bruce Bise and Samuel Mendez, pleaded guilty to tax evasion for a scheme that defrauded more than 13,000 investors of approximately 24 million dollars. Bise and Mendez marketed their company, Bitqyck, and the company’s currency, Bitqy, as a way for “those
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readNov 2, 2021Your IRS Questions Answered Here…
Question: The IRS is hounding me and won’t leave me alone, so I’ve finally decided to seek help from a Tax Professional who specializes in IRS problems. I want to start getting my paperwork together for the appointment; what will I need to bring with me? Answer: It’s very important to have certain
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readOct 28, 2021Serial Tax Evader Goes to Jail For Not Paying Taxes on 20 Million Dollars
A New Jersey businessman, Jason Kronick, has been arrested on four counts of tax evasion. Kronick evaded paying more than 4.3 million dollars in income taxes from 2008 to 2010, despite having earned approximately 20 million dollars in taxable income during that time period. Kronick spent approxi
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readOct 26, 2021Cisco Employee Did it His Way To the Tune of Millions
A former Cisco employee, Prithvirag Bhikha, is headed to prison for tax and wire fraud. In 2013 Bhikha was assigned to lead a new Cisco venture called “Project New York” which entailed hiring third party vendors to negotiate savings with manufacturers Cisco worked with. In 2014, Bhikha asked a ven
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readOct 22, 2021Employee Steals from Church and Has to Answer to Higher Power and The IRS
The former head of construction and land management at the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine in Florida was sentenced to 33 months in prison for tax and wire fraud charges. Charles Jon David was responsible for selling land owned by the church, and in 2013 sold a property to two individuals for we
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readOct 20, 2021Thief & Tax Evader Takes From Needy Kids and Gives to Himself
Saurabh Chawla, a Colorado businessman, was found guilty of trafficking in stolen goods and tax evasion. From 2009 to 2019 Chawla purchased more than 3.5 million dollars in goods he knew were stolen, from various individuals, and resold the items on eBay. Chawla purchased and resold 3,000 Apple iP
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readOct 18, 2021IRS Crime Investigators Moving to the Digital Age with Billboards
IRS Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), in partnership with New York State Crime Stoppers, has launched its first ever digital billboard campaign with the hope of catching tax evaders. The billboard, which is part of a 12-week public service campaign, is off the Kensington Expressway in Buffalo, New Y
Gregory McCauley Jr., Esq.•1 min readOct 15, 2021Showing 217–243 of 825 articles
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